4 Ways Your Agile Software Development Can Work Against You

When talking about agile software development, we need to think fast, to be flexible and stay efficient.

If you lack in any of these three principles, then you are probably doing something wrong. In other words, you’re not Agile enough.

Teams that are agile perform testing throughout development and can be confident that they are releasing a high-quality product.

We use Scrum as it offers freedom of implementation while not sacrificing the end result.

Even though each team member knows their roles and the work methodology is defined, people still make mistakes in the process falling into common traps and misunderstandings.

#4 things you might be doing wrong with Agile software development are closely related to #4 tenants of Agile manifesto.

Let’s go over each of them to explore what lies behind and stops you from being agile.

Related to Working [products] over comprehensive documentation.

How?

If you want to deliver value to your customers, you must deliver early. This implies having different teams working together in different environments.

The result of this is a vast array of data, ranging from test management, defect tracking to project management and so on. All this data needs to be processed and organized in order for you to keep moving forward on the agile track.

Most of the time, what you get is a chunk of data with no real visibility and therefore, no room for improvement.

The SOLUTION?

Related to Responding to change over following a plan.

How?

Time is always an issue. Getting things done and delivering in time is one of the key points of success.

In today’s world, the competition is stiff, and you need to be ahead. Take Spotify for example: their competition is Google, Apple, and Amazon. These are all insanely huge companies that could crush them, but thanks to ASD, Spotify manages to stand shoulder to shoulder with these giants.

Your product needs to be completed, working, tested and pending release every couple of weeks. This is the best way to keep your customers and tend to their needs. The main cause of these delays is not applying the ASD principles throughout the whole development process.

The SOLUTION?

A lot of people fail to realise that ASD reduces risks by dividing projects into short iterations and thus allowing mistakes to be rectified in each stage of the project.

Related to Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.

How?

If you finish your product without any feedback from your users, you might find yourself with something people are just not happy to buy and this can happen because you are not publishing enough.

It often happens that a product is completed and functional but there is a hold on publishing.

People do this because they want to make sure that all the kinks are sorted out, all the features included, etc.

The SOLUTION?

This will help you make all the necessary adjustment and tailor your product to the needs of your customers.

Related to Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Let’s go back to the feedback issue. As already said, it’s not always easy to get feedback, but it’s not always easy to hear it either.

We like to presume that our product and our initial idea of it are perfect and that it should remain the way it was imagined, but that’s not the case and this is where Agile comes in place.

That is why it allows you to publish bits of your product and get instant feedback and adjust your thought process.

The SOLUTION?

Providing your users with a test version of your product and having them tell you exactly what they need is a priceless piece of information.

To sum up

If you want your projects to be delivered early, to be flexible and open to improvement, the best thing to do is to go back and think about what you are trying to achieve with Agile Software Development.

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